5 tips for increasing Google Adsense earning

Interesting, I came across this link when I was checking out Smashing Magazine’s post on 100% Google AdSense tips and tools. I just started playing with Google AdSense late last year. Therefore there are still alot of things about AdSense that I need to learn.  I only implemented AdSense on my AlexandPatty.com blog. Those tips definately helped me optimize my ads for sure.

30 Essential UI Controls

I actually came across this posting last month. I even sent out this link to everyone in my team (not sure if they read it.) It’s actually quite interesting how those controls are actually around us in most of the applications, softwares or even web pages.

12 Standard UI Screen Patterns

Another wonderful posting about the principles of screen patterns for RIA applications. It’s quite interesting the patterns are actually around us all the time. Even the sites that I worked on everyday (thestar.com, yourhome.ca, parentcentral.ca..etc) They all incorporate some sort of the patterns.

15 Common Component Patterns

When I see this post, I send this to my manager (whom’s working on building us a wonderful project management tool). It has a large list of the component behaviors that we see today. This is a must-read if you are building some sort of productivity tools or applications.

10 Min Power Point Mock prototyping

No matter how much I dislike Power Point, I just can’t avoid it. It’s on everyone’s machine! It’s on your manager’s machine, and it’s on all your client’s machine too! I had built Flash presentation back in the day that I should have just built it under Power Point instead. Why? because it’s just easier to update through Powerpoint instead of Flash. This Powerpoint prototyping Youtube video shows you the trick all under 10 min, it’s freaking awesome.